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- adjective Alternative spelling of
fringy .
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Examples
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Hollywoods treatments of SF are usually not to my taste but you'd expect the afficianados of any kind of fringey media to be disappointed in a few things when it becomes more mass market.
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I'm enjoying the series overall, though if you're a die-hard science purist, you might be put off by the more, um, "fringey" parts of
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Ms. J said she tends not to overthink her look, which on Wednesday featured Guess jeans, a fringey top, a shrug, heavy purple eye makeup and a straight Lousie Brooks-like bob.
Next Up: Jessie J Marshall Heyman 2011
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Hey GOPers/Teatards, how's that extremey, fringey thing workin 'out for ya?
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Well, everybody had their fun at their tea parties yesterday, drawing in, to be charitable, an eclectic mix of demonstrators, mostly from the fringey side of the right wing who seemed confused about some of the terms they were throwing around.
The Party's Over 2009
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Still I have to say that in the fringey right-wing circles I follow (Austrian economists, miscellaneous gold bugs, survivalists, and Ron Paul) there has been a great deal of well-justified pessimism.
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Onto the $249 fringey suede dress ... what happened?
Alexandra Sinderbrand: Don't Do the Choo Alexandra Sinderbrand 2010
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Does the support of Daily Kos really qualify as fringey and outsider?
Josh Mull: Election 2010: "Lefty Insurgents" and the Phony Revolution 2010
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Hey, David, do you think that the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy is fringey and radical?
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There's no need to be furtive or join fringey listservs (although you can -- honey, they're out there).
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Is Going Meatless Better Than Sex? 2010
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Buffy: So it was blue and sorta short.
Willow: Not too short, medium. And it had this weird, sorta fringey stuff on its arms.
Giles (walking in): What's that, a demon?
Buffy: A prom dress that Will was thinking of getting. Can't you ever get your mind out of the Hellmouth? - "The Prom"
September 2, 2007